How Krishna Laid To Rest King Dhritarashtra's Doubts About Law Of Karma

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Lord Krishna, as the epic war of Mahabharata concluded, decided to pay a visit to King Dhritarashtra, the grieving father of the Kauravas, in order to calm him down and to lessen his anguish. Krishna used all the dharmic means and ways to help the royal couple come to terms with their pain and the situation. Dhritarashtra, the knowledgeable soul who could see past present and future, strode forward towards Krishna and asked him a question.

Dhritarashtra's Questions To Krishna

"Krishna, You are Lord Vishnu himself and you have seen the travails we went through and our unbearable suffering, I admit I have been unreasonable with you at times. I agree that my mistakes can not be pardoned but can be atoned for. I was forced to behave against my conscience and compunctions all because of my eldest son Duryodhana.

Despite my drawbacks and moral disabilities, I have worshipped you silently deep within my heart. I had to follow the political ethics while I had to interact with you. I never asked you, as your bhakta, to grant me the ability of vision just to admire my possessions. I did not ask you for these worthless sons, I did not ask for your mercy to correct their attitude, I did not even ask you for pitching in and advice my sons to stop warring with their own cousins. This gory bloodshed could have been averted. Duryodhana made me cut my ties with the children of my beloved brother Pandu. I never asked you why I haven't got the love that I deserve from Pandavas no matter how much I tried. Me and Gandhari spent days and nights in darkness and fear. Why did you choose us to suffer this fate, let me know,"

At least tell me what sin I have committed to deserve this fate. This allows me to die in peace. Gandhari too wept bitterly unable to control her tears. Glancing mercifully at the old couple, Krishna said thus.

Krishna's Answer To The Query

The world is ruled by the handiwork of fate or karma. All deeds of human beings, whether good or bad, will follow the doer not only in this life but in the afterlife as well. If you just go one more lifetime back in time, behind those hundred lives wherein you had lived the life of a virtuous person, you will know the truth. You were a cruel king at that time with a penchant for hunting animals. Once when you were in a deep forest, you found a beautiful pond in which a mother swan with her hundred cygnets was swimming blissfully.
You could not withstand the sight and shot your arrows one by one into all those cygnets and they died on the spot. You blinded the eyes of the mother swan and made her weep all her life. Your deeds or karmic errors, made you suffer the life you are having today. Since you performed only good deeds in the succeeding hundred janmas, the accumulated punya karma allowed you to have a high birth.

But the Karma of the past ripened in this lifetime and followed you to punish you. This was the reason why you were born blind and also lost your hundred sons in the warfare. Nobody can escape his karma that he accumulates in this lifetime on earth and Karma makes sure he pays for his karma and enjoys the rewards of punya karma.

As per Lord Krishna, nobody in this world can escape his karma once he has committed it. God makes sure he undergoes the same punishment which he awarded for some other innocent creature so that he understands in what way and how he inflicted pain to that creature and how it affected it.

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